A National Network on Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction
A 10-point Jahangirnagar Declaration has been adopted at National River Fair on the university campus yesterday with a call to give a special priority while developing and implementing projects to save the country’s rivers.In the declaration, they also urged to protect the rights of the communities depending on the rivers and preserve habitation of aquatic […]
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This training course aims to well aware and update the knowledge skills and attitude of the humanitarian activist on basic humanitarian principals and standards. The course create a pool of practitioners in promoting and implementing approaches for enhanced Quality and Accountability through Sphere and HAP as a tool in humanitarian responses by sharing, learning and
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Disaster Forum conducted first dissemination workshop of the Sphere book 2018 Title “What New in Sphere 2018” along with the challenges of monitoring the practice of humanitarian complaisance. About 25 participants (Sphere trainers and humanitarian response managers) from different organizations including ActionAid, Save the Children,Christian Aid, BRAC International, ADD International, Helvetas Swiss Inter-corporation, Red Cross and Red
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The almost unbearable bout of sweltering heat has endangered the normal life in the country. Besides the scorching sun and dry weather, shortage of electricity and water supply has added to the people’s sufferings in the urban areas. The ongoing ‘heat wave’ is also taking its toll on some selected agricultural crops. Besides, it has
No Chance of Rain for next few days – Sweltering heat disrupts life across the country Read More »
In Chuadanga (Damurdhuda) and Kurigram (Chilmari) district around 4 people died (3 of them are women and one man) by cold related disease. The lowest temperature 4.4 degree temperature has been recorded in Damurdhuda at 26th January and 5 degree in Chuadanga at 27th January 2013. Mild to moderate cold wave is sweeping over Dhaka,
Four people died in recent cold wave Read More »
Nipah virus claimed seven more lives in Pabna,Rajshahi, Rajbarhi, Jhenaidah, Naogaon, Natore and Gaibandha, raising the death toll to eight so far this month. Director of the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Prof Mahmudur Rahman said they found six people infected in Rajbarhi, Jhenaidah, Naogaon, Natore and Gaibandha. Five died of them.
Nipah claimed another seven people Read More »
A quake that was felt in entire Bangladesh for nearly two minutes from 6:40:47pm had its epicentre in Sikkim, India. It was the strongest tremor to have hit the region in the last six decades. The tremor damaged a number of buildings and structures in parts of the country. However, no casualty was reported in
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Heavy monsoon rains in recent days have caused at least five rivers in South Western Bangladesh to burst their banks, flooding more than 1,000 square kilometres of farmland in the remote Satkhira district. According to agencies working in the area, at least 5.5 million people of two hundred thousand families have been made homeless in
Child protection is not in the agenda of flood relief initiatives Read More »
Nine rivers including the Padma, which were flowing above their flood levels on Tuesday, continued to rise, resulting in further deterioration of the flood situation in the low-lying areas along their banks on Wednesday (Aug17, 11). The flood situation in Munshiganj, Madaripur, Faridpur, Jessore, Satkhira, Kushtia, Tongi, Sunamganj, Netrokona and Sherpur is likely to deteriorate
Nine Rivers flowing above danger level
Flood Situation in South – Western part is worsen Read More »